So Saturday, I got an inch of snow while nothing came down on the site lower in the valley. Turnout was good, a couple hundred maybe. Lots of kids and dogs wearing glow collars. Temps in the teens made it wonderful to be attending a burning event. One of the flying embers did start my knit cap burning. As a festival of welcoming back the Sun, the most important part of any Yule celebration is light , bonfires, fireworks and more. The story goes ... Elder and birch plants protected the gates to the underworld. And burning them released the Sun to be reborn. A shot to the heart, a revealed face . Well, whatever. A party is a party.

A few additions to the dear girl, and then she stood up to join the celebrations. Tomorrow the girls will come in to give her the best of looks and make us all welcome for a night of welcoming the Winter Season.Music, lights, beating on drums, dancing, will hopefully get the attention of Old Man Winter to give us some more snow.

This Saturday will be the Winter Solstice fest of the local version of Burning Man. That's known as the "Willow Woman" festival outside Hailey, Idaho. A couple years are archived on my "Burning Man" pages.But these are exemplary of this weekend's festivities.

Hope to see you there. We need noise makers, tambourine shakers, and party makers.

Little things to keep busy. Especially since since I quit playing the game online. I acquired a bunch of wooden dowels, and thought they would pair up nicely with some of those rough sawn boards from the firewood I had cut to test out the Wood Mizer. Ended up cutting up a few more boards.The rough cut along with the "live edge"create a nice rustic look. Holiday weeks coming up in a tourist town give an opportunity to offer crafted items at the local tourist venues .

All this is at the old diner that was used as the location for the movie "Bus Stop", starring Marylin Monroe. I have a geocache on location named "Geocache Bus Stop " and has garnered over thirty hits recently from people touring the US from as far away as Germany and Japan. Below is a loc. file for your GPS.

A video that I ran through Photoshop CS6 with an oil paint filter. Then I used it in the last of my firewood cutting videos for YouTube.Firewood 04A lot of my videos are on YouTube, since I didn't get my website until just recently and had posted quite a few there already.Thanks to Bill for the Deadcow Reeks tunes. Pretty awesome stuff he does.All my videos are HD 1080p, so if you can, go full screen and High Def.